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Washington. He then gave a list of the counties to which he had sent documents, and excluded Middlesex and others, which were included in the charge against him. His denial was clothed in most emphatic language. Mr. Montague, of Middlesex, said that as his county had been referred to, he felt it to be his duty to state that such documents were received there under the frank of Sherrard Clemens--two of them to free negroes, one of whom could read. They had also been sent to negroes in Essex and Orange under the same frank. He then produced two envelopes which had been preserved. Mr. Clemens examined the franks, and pronounced them both forgeries. Mr. Montague was glad to hear it. He proceeded to make a point that when corruption had become so great at Washington that forgery was resorted to for the purpose of circulating documents, it was time for the South to cut loose. Mr. Branch, of Petersburg, raised a point of order. Mr. Montague remarked that he had s